Has every oyster a different taste?

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

Does that mean that if we shave all the Ob'enn they'll be nice?

Instant gratification takes too long.

Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.

Your side of the boat is sinking!

We are now as I wished we could be then.

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.

I get too excited about football and rugby.

Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.